Comments on: Code-Writing’s Days Numbered

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By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I followed the chain of links before I realised that it’s .NET we’re talking about.

Frans Bouma puts it very nicely: “Good tools help the user, so a good generator will help the user of that generator. It should be: which generator will I use?, and not: shall I use a generator or not?,”

In any case, in general, code generators are useful only if they do what you want. I’d use a code generator over coding by hand anyday, when the tool is good – in fact, programming EJBs practically calls for automatic code generation to remove the tedium of coding the various interfaces and there are some mighty good code generators out there (Middlegen, IDEs like JBuilder and IDEA).

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Quote: “but I do believe that by and large, the days of spending 90% of your time writing original code are over.”

The days writing original code should never be diminished – in fact, I think you meant the time spent writing _unoriginal_, repetitive code should be numbered.

By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Mmm, perhaps I meant the amount of original code that goes into a project (original being hand-written)

I know that we tend to code entire apps to help us do repetitive things, and we have a whole load of custom controls (.NET).

By: Calbert

Calbert — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I am working with some body who have developed a automated coding system that will also generate code from an algorithm design given in a flowchart. The system will generate code for non-repetative system also. There are free sample download for the BASIC language at the web site: http://www.logiccoder.biz.